Category Archives: War

To thine own people be true, Israel

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

I read in today’s [Wednesday] newspaper that Israel will be building a sophisticated barrier along the border with Gaza. Sensors, underground walls and who knows what secret systems to detect tunneling and infiltration. The cost is estimated in billions of … Continue reading →

Posted in Israeli Society, War | 2 Comments

Don’t give the fox the keys to the henhouse

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

The Oslo accords divided Judea and Samaria into areas A, B and C. Area C, where most settlements and few Arabs are, was placed under complete Israeli control. Area B, strategic areas with large Arab populations and the smallest of … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel and Palestinian Arabs, Terrorism, War | 4 Comments

Western morality and Islamic jihad

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Two Palestinian terrorists stabbed and moderately injured a member of Israel’s Kfir brigade in Hevron Thursday. One was killed immediately; the other was lying wounded on the ground. Some time later the wounded terrorist was killed by a shot to … Continue reading →

Posted in Terrorism, War | 3 Comments

Tolerance and terrorism

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

So there was a bloody terrorist attack – two bloody terrorist attacks – in Brussels on Tuesday. Dozens murdered, more injured seriously. The Islamic State took responsibility, and threatened more attacks. The overwhelming feeling one gets is a combination of … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe and Israel, Islam, Terrorism, War | 3 Comments

Crying in Tehran

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Anyone who has ever tried to babysit a group of Israeli kids knows the expression translated as “this will end in crying.” Sometimes you just know that there will not be a good ending for certain kinds of behavior. Maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, War | 1 Comment

It’s a MAD, MAD world

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Si vis pacem, para bellum [he who desires peace, prepare for war] – Vegetius Anyone older than about 30 remembers the “balance of terror,” or in academic terms, the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). This meant that the US … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, War | 1 Comment

Defensive weapons and the strategy of preemption

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Victor Rosenthal

This week the new medium-range anti-missile system called “David’s Sling” was declared operational, and is expected to be deployed in 2016. It will join the existing Iron Dome systems for short-range rockets and the Arrow 3 system for intercepting ballistic … Continue reading →

Posted in War | 2 Comments

You can’t win the war you don’t fight

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Victor Rosenthal

This can’t be allowed to continue. Yesterday there was another fatal stabbing at Etzion junction, a place which has seen several murders and countless terror attacks. A beautiful young woman, Hadar Buchris, was murdered for the crime of being Jewish … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel and Palestinian Arabs, Terrorism, War | 4 Comments